The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-03-03

| pie living West of Chicago desires thu
bill and desired it as it came from
the committee, but it haG
been murdered and murdered by east
ern men. Let the burden, he said, rest
on them. The great plains of Kansas
cattle plague. The blame was not
with the Committee on Agriculture
If the Senator from Nebraska thought
that he could make anything out of his
proposition to put hog cholera into the
bill in heavens name let him do it.
Teller spoke of the substitute as
/ having been offered and voted for ii
out Of spirit of hostility to the bill.
AS to the statement made by Senator
Van Wyck that the bill was in the in.
terest of the people of the East he re-
lures of all the Western States, the
chamber of commerce, the boards of
trade and all the cattle as
sociations had urged this legis-
lation. The adoption of the substitute
be regarded as the death knell
of the bill, and he wanted the country
to know that the friends of the bill UNI
derstoOd the purpose and motive with
which the substitute was offered and
sustained.
Van Wyck said that be agreed with
very much the Senator from Colorado
said. He Wan Wyck) had acted
agaidst the substitute and was in favor
of the bill as it came from the Commit
tee. He had intended if he had the
opportunity to offer his amendment to
the original bill.
Miller said that it was unnecessary.
as the original bill would apply also to
the diseases of swine.
Van Wyck did not agree with that
tot h &c a 81 ~,
not too antago niStic to the bill, but to
make it better.
Dawes moved to reconsider the vote
adopting the substitute. The bill was
laid aside informally.
The Presiding Officer then laid before
the Senate the Pacific Railroad Inquiry
Resolution.
Frye moved that the Senate go into
executive session. Rejected, yeas p
nays SO.
Cameron moved to adjourn. Neg
atived.
Hoar declared his determination to
have the Pacific Railroad Inquiry Re
solution considered to-day.
Cullom-Do you desire to have a final
vote on the resolution tonight
Hoar-Yes.
Allison-Then move that the Sem
ate take recess till 8 p. m. Agreed to
ana a recess was taken.
THE HOUSE.
The Speaker laid before the House
the message from the President, return
ing, without his approval, the bill foI
the relief of the estate of the late John
How. Referred to the Committee on
Claims.
The Speaker also laid before the
House message from the Senate an
nouncing the passage by that body over
the Presidents veto of the bill for the
relief of Thomas S. Hopkins: Referred
to the Committee on Invalid Pensions.
Hatch, of Missouri, asked unani-
nous consent that the House now con-
cur in the Senate amendments to the
bill creating Department of Agricul-
ture and Labor.
Morrison, of Illinois, objected, and
the bill was referred to the Committee
on Agriculture.
On motion of Belmont, of New York,
the house insisted on the amendments
to the Senate Retaliation Bill and
MesSrS. Belmont, Clement, and Rice
were appointed conferees.
Hatch, of Missouri, moved to sus-
pend the rules and pass the Senate bill
providing for agricultural experiment
stations.
Randall, of Pennsylvania, said that
during the last six days of the session
a question of recognition for the pur-
pose of moving to suspend the rules
was within the discretion of the Speak
er. He asked the right of way from
now on for the appropriation bills, and
he hoped the chair would not recognize
the gentlemen to move
suspension of the rules until these
bills were disposed OF. Hatch suggest
ed that after reading the journal it was
in order for any member to secure the
floor to suspend the rules.
The Speaker stated that during the
last six days of the session it was in
order for the gentleman to move sus-
pension of the rules at any time where
he could get the floor for that purpose,
but the matter of recognition rested
entirely in the discretion of the Chair,
but at this stage of the session the
Chair thought it his duty to give the
right of way to the Appropriation Bill,
which must be passed in order to avoid
an extra session. The Chair therefore
would not enter into general business
of recognition of motions to suspend
rules until the Appropriation Bills were
disposed of; but the Chair having re-
cognized the gentleman from Missouri
the motion of that gentleman was now
in order. The bill was then read.
O'Neii, OF Missouri, said the house
in its wisdom had blended two subjects
of Agriculture and Labor. The mo-
men bill was presented with
COwprint upon it it was passed, but
when the committee on labor endeav-
ored to secure action. uponbills relating
to labor it was met with objections.
He protested against this unfair treat
ment.
Hatch's motion to suspend the rules
and pass the bill was agreed to-l52 to
121.
Burns, of Missouri, from the commit
tee on appropriations reported the De-
ficiency Appropriation Bill. Referred
to the committee of the whole.
TownShend, of Illinois, submitted a
conference report on the Invalid Pen
sion Appropriation Bill. Agreed to.
The only points of difference were in
regard to the provisions fOT offices of
pension agents. AS agreed to the bill
appropriates 500, 900 for rent of such
offices and requires the Secretary of the
Treasury to furnish quarters in public
buildings for the occupancy of pension
agencies when possible. Private bust
ness having been dispensed with the
house went into committee of the
whole, McCeary, of Kentucky in the
chair, on the Naval Appropriation
Bill.
The pending amendment was that
apprOprlatlnR STU LOT the repair Oh
the Naval War College building on
Coasters Island. The amendment was
rejected SO to SO.
Boutelle moved to strike out the par
agraph appropriating 81 900, 600 for the
construction of two timber dry docks t.
be erected at such navy yards as the
! Secretary of the Navy may indicate
He was not opposed, he said, to the
construction of dry docks, but he criti
cised the provision for its failure to in
dictate where they should be located. Il
was dangerous to leave the matter tx
discretion of the Secretary, which
might be exercised according to the ex
/ igencies of political election.
| Wise, of Virginia, thought the De
partment was better qualified to deter
mine the location for the dry dock:
than Congress was. The Democratic
party, with no political object in view
| Intended to build a nayy-a thing
which the Republican party had faile(
to do.
Thomas, of Illinois, claimed for TIT
Republican party the honor of takin,
the first step towards building up